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Category: aphorisms

Posted on March 6, 2021March 7, 2021

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”—Paul Valery, French poet, 1871-1945

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

“The new broom sweeps the house best.”—Irish proverb

Posted on February 17, 2021February 16, 2021

“It’s the last suitor that wins the maid.”—Irish proverb

Posted on August 15, 2020

“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catchwords.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on June 24, 2020June 24, 2020

“A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

Posted on June 23, 2020

“I am a rich man, as long as I don’t pay my creditors.”—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman playwright, 254-184 BC

Posted on June 10, 2020June 10, 2020

“The good befriend themselves.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC

Posted on June 7, 2020

“In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century BC

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